NOTE: The following comes from the office of State Senator Brian A. Joyce. You can find Milton district maps and links to the respective representatives here.
I am pleased to announce that the Special Redistricting Commission has scheduled two public hearings for the South Shore region. Thirteen redistricting hearings in all are being held across the state, to represent each region. The South Shore’s hearings will be held in Quincy and Brockton.
from The Forbes House Museum
On Monday, 21 March 2011, Forbes House Museum welcomed a very special guest, the Museum’s founder, Dr. H. A. Crosby Forbes. Dr. Forbes, great grandson of Captain Robert Bennet Forbes, had a long and distinguished career as the founder of the Museum of the American China Trade (later named the Forbes House Museum), and Curator of Asian Export Art at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.
Sustainable Milton will be screening the 2010 academy award nominee Gasland tonight (3/23) at the Milton Public Library at 6:30. “It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. . . ” see full summary and learn more at IMDB.com.
Learn how to better manage diabetes, a disease that affects 25.8 million people in the US according to information data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet released January 26, 2011. In fact, 1.9 million people over the ages of 20 were newly diagnosed with the disease in 2010.
This is the first in a series of monthly reports from Laura Cahill of Cahill Properties, RE/MAX Landmark.
In this initial snapshot there are metrics on annual homes sales (prices and volumes) as well as key numbers of home sales, prices (both listing and actual sales prices) and days on market for the months of January and February. It provides clear insight into the health of the Milton real estate market.
On Friday, March 18th, State Senator Brian A. Joyce spoke at School to Careers, Student Seminar: Leaders in Government and Public Service: Learning About Careers in the Public Sector.
from the candidate
I am pleased to announce that I am a candidate for Selectman in Milton’s April 26 election. I decided to run for Selectman first and foremost because I am a lifelong resident of Milton and am proud to call myself a resident of the Town. Milton has a lot to offer its residents and has given me much during the many years that I have lived here.
from The Milton Times
A new Chapter 40B affordable housing development project is in the works. Town Planner Bill Clark told the Selectmen last week that he has received informal notice that designs have begun on a 96-unit housing development on Meg Lane, a paper street off Randolph Avenue between Highland and Reed streets – near the Department of Public Works yard. (Read the story here.)
Back Row: Jennifer Wry, Glenn Kidder, Michael Maholchic, Lillian Fuchs Front Row: Nancy Azar, Laura Ruth Jarrett, Rev. Sara Marean (co-Pastor, East Congregational Church), Nia Rogers
by Glenn Kidder / photo by Steve Nelson
On Sat., March 19, the East Congregational Church Growth & Development Committee sponsored a first-ever Drum Circle in Fellowship Hall, presented by The Spark of Joy Love Band. Nearly 30 members and friends participated in the event, and spirits (as well as rhythms) soared!
from Wicked Local Milton
Dr. Wilhelmina Van Dyke Lord never thought of herself as a pioneer. Not when she went to one of the first medical schools in the nation to accept female students, the University of Michigan, in 1938. Not when she became the first female resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1941. Not when she became chief of the medical staff at Milton Hospital in the 1970s. (Read the full story here.)